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Watch the film and it will spit you out elated Movie Reviews By Reviewer Type. Whiplash is exactly why films are made. It's powerful, moving, scary, gripping, thought-provoking, exhausting, inspiring and.in-%*@#ing-tense. Whiplash is a tense (but somewhat hollow) psycho-thriller that features a ferocious performance to remember from J. Following the electrifying climax of Damien Chazelle's Whiplash, people everywhere couldn't help but get excited. The climax is the film's shining gem, a symphony of sweat, effort, and glorious drumming.

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Whiplash review - the Full Metal Jacket of jazz drumming. How Whiplash kills the cheesy pupil-mentor genre stone dead. Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" is a movie about music, but it could just as well have been about an underdog sports team.

If I tell you that this diabolically entertaining spellbinder is about a student (Miles Teller) trying to master the arcane art of jazz drumming at an elite music conservatory. Review: Whiplash Moves to the Beat of a Driven Drummer. Daniel McFadden—Sony Pictures. (Movie casting can be every bit as humiliating as band practice.) The two stars truly deliver. It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and an abusive bandleader.